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Letters Patent No. 62,052, dated February 12, 1867.

SAUSAGE STUFFER.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, Puuonss ilIILESv of the city and State of New York,have 'inventeih made, and applied to use a certain new and usefulImprovement in Sausage Stuflcrs; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention,reference being bad to the annexed drawing making part of thisspecification, whercin Figure 1 is a vertical section of the saidsausage stuffer; and

Figure 2 is a plan of the same.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

The object ofmy invention is to obtain a compact, strong, and durablesausage s tufier. that can be cleaned out with great facility, andhas noparts that are liable to become broken or displaced in use.

My invention consists in a swinging follower, actuated by a lever, andplaced within a hopper that has a bottom curved from the centre, onwhich the follower swings, so that sausage meat entered within thehopper is, by said follower, pressed out from the side of said hopperthrough a nozzle provided for the intestine.

In the drawing, a is a hopper, secured and sustained by legs I: 5,,01'other supports, that may be screwed to a table. The lower part of thehopper is curvedfrom the axis 0 of the follower d. that is, of a size tocorrc spend with the space or opening of the hopper in which it isswung, by the action'of a lever, e, that is on the outer end of the axisa. I prefer that the hopper a be made of cast iron, the sides,and'curvcd bottom being in one piece, and the front a being made as aplate, so as to allow'of the introduction of-the follower d and its axis0 (also of cast metal) being introduced, after which the parts a a ofthe hopperarc secured together by rivets or screws. My sausage stufi'eris thus constructed very easily and cheaply, there being but fourprincipal parts, the two pieces of the hopper, the follower and itsaxis, andthc handle. The tube for the delivery of the sausage meat intothe intestine I prefer to have made of sheet metal, as at-f. This may bemovable, and: intro duced from the inside, so as to facilitate cleaning.Tliefollowcr (1 should be turned up against the front plate a when theminced meat is introduced, and upon being brought down it pressesthcmeat out through the nozzle.

If meat should be supplied into the hopper so as to fall on the back oftlic follower, the reverse movement of the handle brings the follower upagainst the front plate a, and squeezes out the meat from between (I anda, and it falls over the end of d into its place for being forcedthrough the nozzlef.

I do not claim a swinging valve, as that has been used without a hopper,to force the sausage meat out of a curved case; in that instance, themeat could only be supplied when the valve is turned back. In myimprovement the meat can be continually supplied into the hopper, andwill fall over from the back of the follower when said follower is bcingmoved back to take a. fresh charge. What I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, isp The follower d and axle c, in combination withthe vertical hopper (1, having a curved bottom, and thenozzlefintroduced through the vertical side a, as specified. i

I also claim forming the hopper a, with the curved bottom and sides castin one piece, to receive the follower d. axle c, and front a, as and forthe purposes specified. Dated December 5, 1866.

PURCHES MILES.

Witnesses:

Guns. H. SMITH, GEO. D.'WALKER.

